Will of Laura Annie Bowring from Newfoundland will books volume 14 pages 383-384 probate year 1928

In re       DECEASED.
      LAURA ANNIE BOWRING.

I, LAURA ANNIE BOWRING of Chislehurst Softon Park near the CITY of Liverpool widow, HEREBY REVOKE all testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and DECLARE this to be my last will which I make this sixteenth day of November one thousand nine hundred and twenty, I APPOINT my sons CHARLES WARREN BOWRING and HAROLD BOWRING to be the executors of this my will I BEQUEATH Free of legacy duty to the Asylum for widows and orphans in St. John's Newfoundland a Newfoundland Government Debenture Bond for one hundred pounds registered in my name AND in the event of such debenture bond being paid off in my lifetime Then in the alternative I BEQUEATH to the said Asylum the sum of one hundred pounds sterling AND I DECLARE that the receipt of the Treasurer or Secretary for the time being of the said Asylum shall be a sufficient discharge for the said legacy AND I BEQUEATH free of legacy duty to MARY MURPHY in acknowledgment of devoted service to myself and children for very many years the sum of one hundred pounds
I DIRECT my executors to give effect to any testamentary directions I may leave whether of a strictly formal character or not as to the disposal of any furniture or chattels belonging to me at the date of my decease the furniture at my dwelling house belonging in part to the estate of my late husband the use of which part was given to me during my life and as to the remaining part thereof being my own private property purchased from time to time out of my own moneys
I GIVE DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my share and interest in the estate of my late father The Honourable John Henry Warren of St. John's Newfoundland to the Trustees for the time being of an Indenture of Settlement dated the twentieth day of November one thousand nine hundred and six made in contemplation of the Marriage of my daughter Ethel Laura to George Lawrence Wilson her present husband to be held by them upon the trusts in such settlement declared concerning the moneys thereby settled by or on behalf of my said daughters

Subject to the payment of my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the legacies hereby or by any codicil hereto bequeathed I GIVE all the residue of my estate to and equally between my sons the said CHARLES WARREN BOWRING and WILLIAM BOWRING and my daughter the said ETHEL LAURA WILSON and my sons the said HAROLD BOWRING ERIC AUBREY BOWRING and CYRIL BOWRING. AND I DECLARE that if any one or more of my sons shall die in my lifetime without leaving issue living at my death the share of the son so dying in my residuary estate shall be divided equally between his brothers and sister AND I HEREBY FURTHER DECLARE that the share in my residuary estate hereinbefore bequeathed to my said daughter ETHEL LAURA WILSON not with standing that she may predecease me without leaving issue living at my death and any further share to which she may become entitled by reason of the death in my lifetime without leaving issue living at my death of any of her brothers shall be paid to the trustees of my said daughters said settlement to be held by them upon the trusts in such settlement declared concerning the moneys thereby settled by or on behalf of my said daughter.
IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first before written.
LAURA A. BOWRING.
SIGNED and declared by the said testatrix LAURA ANNIE BOWRING as and for her last will in the presence of us both present at the same time who at her request in her presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
B ARKLE Solicitor Liverpool
ROBT V JONES, his clerk

CORRECT
William F. Lloyd

(Listed in the margin next to this will the following)
Fiat
Dec 1/28
J. M. Kent J.
Sealed with
the seal of the
Supreme Court
of Newfoundland
the 4^th day of
December.
A.D. 1928.
Value of Estate
$5000.00